Midsummer Fire Festival (June 21 - July 5)

Sonnenwendfest is here! Embrace the spirit of summer by honoring your faction's flames and desecrating the enemy's! Throughout the world, there are bonfires surrounded by questgivers and NPCs that sell summery items in exchange for Brandblüte. There are commoner NPCs of all races that can be found lingering around the major cities that will give you a short quest to turn in at one of the main bonfire camps to get you started.

Midsummer Fire Festival begins on June 21 at 10:00 AM (PST) and runs until July 5 at 10:00 AM (PST).

Festival Bonfires

Bonfires have been spread across all of Azeroth, inviting players to honor their own faction's and desecrate those of their enemies! To honor one of your faction's bonfires, simply speak to the nearby Flame Keeper and Flame Warden and complete the quest. To desecrate an opposing faction bonfire, the quest will instead be available at the bonfire itself, where you can extinguish it for your reward.

Not only does visiting these fires grant a good bit of money for max level characters, it is also extremely good experience for pre-100 characters making this holiday very helpful for leveling alts.

You are also challenged to steal the four capital city flames of the opposing faction!

Honor the Flame! - Awards Brandblüte x5, and at level 100Start & End:Flame Keeper located near each bonfire of your faction.This quest can only be completed once per location at festival fires belonging to your faction.

Complete List

Keep in mind that every Cataclysm zone has their own bonfires. We have included them in our coordinates by continent.

Tip: Clicking on the coordinates in the tables below will open a map of the bonfire's location in a lightbox! To view your character and your mouse cursor's coordinates on the in-game world map you can use our very own addon, the Wowhead Looter (type /wl loc map), and contribute data in the process!

These are the Alliance bonfires located in the Eastern Kingdoms. Honor them if you're Alliance, or desecrate them otherwise. If you do not see the Blasted Lands bonfires, speak to Zidormi to be phased.

In addition to awarding easy gold and Brandblüte, there are a number of player buffs that are available from the various festival fire locations.

Ribbon Pole

At each bonfire you will find a ribbon pole which creates a colorful streamer to your hand and causes your character to twirl very quickly. While doing this, you will gain the Tanz um den Sonnenbaum buff which increases experience gain by 10% for 3 minutes, stacking 3 more minutes on for every 3 seconds you remain twirling at the ribbon pole. The buff stacks up to a one hour duration and can stack with rested experience, so get it while it's hot! If a player throws a Brandblüte into a festival fire, all surrounding players will gain the Furor des Sonnenwendfestes buff, granting +3% physical/spell critical strike and reflecting Fire damage to attackers for 1 hour, and scales with your player level.

As if that wasn't enough, if you happen to be at a festival flame that has been extinguished and no longer burns, tossing a Brandblüte into it will grant a zone-wide buff Segen des Freudenfeuers which gives your faction's players a 30% chance to inflict 10 Fire damage on any melee, ranged, or spell attack, increasing by 10 Fire damage per level.

Boss: Lord Ahune

Starting with 2010's edition of the festival, Blizzard has changed the way seasonal bosses are accessed. In previous years, a quest would lead you to a dungeon where you would find that event's boss and were able to summon him a limited number of times via quests to farm items. However, nowadays the seasonal boss encounter can be accessed through the Dungeon Finder tool, and related quests now being found inside of the dungeon. New to 2017, players can queue at any level for Ahune! You do not need to be max level.

Any special items that dropped off a seasonal boss in addition to his normal drop table (such as mounts from Apotheker Hummel or Der kopflose Reiter) will now only have a chance to drop from a loot bag which is awarded upon killing the boss for the first time per day. Players can only receive a single loot bag per day, but will be able to re-queue for the boss in order to farm the more common drops. This means no more hours upon hours of farming for the most rare of items--every player in the party will have a chance to get a rare item out of the loot bag once per day!

Ahune can be queued by selecting "The Frost Lord Ahune" in the Dungeon Finder tool, or by speaking to the Urahne des Irdenen Rings located in any main Midsummer camp. Upon defeating Ahune for the first time per day, you will receive gold and a Beutel mit gekühlten Waren which contains a few Brandblüte (about 5-15) and has a chance of containing a rare item.

Upon entering Die Sklavenunterkünfte, rather than having to do a quest to summon Ahune, you must first defeat the Naga who defend the Ice Stone. Use the Ice Stone to summon the boss, defeat the boss, and collect the loot from the chest! Players who have never before defeated Ahune can loot Splitter von Ahune from the chest, which starts a quest that turns in at the nice tauren lady nearby and awards 20 Brandblüte and your choice of Sommerlicher Himmelswappenrock or Sommerlicher Flammenwappenrock! This quest was once again not reset, so if you've already done it in the past you are out of luck.

Torch Throwing

Fackelwurf or FackelwurfStart & End:Feuerschluckmeister or FeuerschluckmeisterYou must aim and throw Übungsfackeln at a series of braziers found nearby the questgiver. A brazier is only considered an active target when it has an arrow above it that looks like Mal des Jägers; non-marked braziers will not count towards the quest objective. When you use the torch you will be given a small targeting circle that you must place over an active brazier and click to toss. You are given x seconds to hit 8 targets, and if you are successful you are awarded with Brandblüte x5 and gold (and experience, if you are lower than 80).

Fackeln fangen or Fackeln fangenStart & End:Feuerschluckmeister or FeuerschluckmeisterYou must light the Nicht angezündete Fackeln at the bonfire, which will then toss a flaming torch into the air. You have to follow the shadow of the torch, and then wait where it will land to "catch" it. If you miss, but are near where it lands you will suffer fire damage which can add up pretty quick if you're not yet used to the quest. When you catch the torch, there will be a very short delay before you will automatically toss it back up into the air, only this time it will travel a much shorter distance. You must "catch" the torch four times in a row to complete the quest, and you will be rewarded with Jonglierfackel x5 and Brandblüte x5.

The Guide will then give you the next part of the quest, Eine unschuldige Verkleidung for which you are given an orb that changes you into a Crawler for three minutes. In your new disguise, you must travel northwest of the entrance of Tiefschwarze Grotte. You will know you're going the right way if you periodically find blue-flamed torches, and eventually a small encampment on the shore. While disguised, witness the exchange between the naga and the Eisruferin Briatha until the quest completes. When it is finished, you can move out of range of the mobs and cancel the disguise, and summon the Führer des Irdenen Rings once again. This time, upon relaying the information, the guide will give you the quest Den Urahnen benachrichtigen, requesting that you return to an Urahne des Irdenen Rings and report your findings.

Once you have returned to an Urahne des Irdenen Rings, the quest chain will complete and either one or two quests will become available, depending on your level. For characters level 22 and above, a repeatable daily quest will open up. The quest is called Striking Back, and depending on your level range you will be given a single objective at a location in Azeroth or Outland.

You can get 1632 Brandblüte maximum, meaning you cannot buy everything on one character in a year. However, do keep in mind that the toys and pets are account-wide, so alts can farm them up.

Battle Pets

In 2015, there are three battle pets from the Midsummer Festival. All three pets are cageable, so you can find them sold on the AH throughout the year. You can also track your pet collection in Wowhead's Profiler.

Toys

The Toy Box in Warlords of Draenor lets you save vanity items to an account-wide collection. In 2015, there are three toys from the Midsummer Festival. Acquiring all of these toys will cost 1200 Brandblüte.

Entweihung der Allianz or Die Entweihung der HordeComplete all Extinguishing achievements.This achievement is awarded upon completion on five of the Extinguishing meta achievements available to each faction: Cataclysm, Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Outland, Northrend. There is a Pandaria achievement, but it does not count towards this progress.

Löschen Kalimdors or Löschen KalimdorsDesecrate the Alliance/Horde's bonfires in Kalimdor.For this achievement, you must extinguish all 14 of the opposing faction's flames found on the continent of Kalimdor. For a full list of these bonfire locations, refer to our map.

Löschen Nordends or Löschen NordendsDesecrate the Alliance/Horde's bonfires in Northrend.For this achievement, you must extinguish all 8 of the opposing faction's flames found in Northrend. For a full list of these bonfire locations, refer to our map.

Löschen der Scherbenwelt or Löschen der ScherbenweltDesecrate the Alliance/Horde's bonfires in Outland.For this achievement, you must extinguish all 7 of the opposing faction's flames found in Outland. For a full list of these bonfire locations, refer to our map.

Löschen Pandarias or Löschen PandariasDesecrate the Alliance/Horde's bonfire in Pandaria's Vale of Eternal Blossoms.For this achievement, you must extinguish the opposing faction's flame in Vale of Eternal Blossoms. This is located by Mogu'shan Palace, not by your faction hubs. This achievement is not needed for the meta achievement.

Löschen Draenors or Löschen DraenorsDesecrate the Alliance/Horde's bonfire in Draenor's Shadowmoon Valley/Frostfire Ridge.For this achievement, you must extinguish the opposing faction's flame outside their Garrison. This achievement is not needed for the meta achievement.

Die Feuer von Azeroth or The Die Feuer von AzerothComplete the Flame Keeper / Flame Warden achievements.This achievement is awarded upon completion of five of the Flame Keeper / Flame Warden meta achievements available to each faction: Cataclysm, Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Northrend, Outland. There is a Pandaria achievement, but it does not count towards this progress.

Flammenbewahrer Pandarias or Flammenbewahrer PandariasHonor the flames of Pandaria.For this achievement, you must honor all 7 your faction's flames found on the continent of Pandaria. For a full list of these bonfire locations, refer to our map. This achievement is not needed for the meta-achievement.

Flammenwächter Draenors or Flammenwächter DraenorsHonor the flames of Pandaria.For this achievement, you must honor all 5 your faction's flames found on the continent of Draenor. For a full list of these bonfire locations, refer to our map. This achievement is not needed for the meta-achievement.

König des SonnenwendfestsComplete the quest, "A Thief's Reward", by stealing the flames from your enemy's capital cities.To obtain this achievement you must complete the quest Der Lohn des Diebes (Alliance), which requires you to sneak into the four major cities of your opposing faction to 'steal' their festival flames. Coordinates for capital city flames can be found above in our Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms tabs.

Most of these bonfires are easy to get to if you have flying, but you cannot fly into Exodar or Silvermoon City. For Exodar, you must take the boat from Teldrassil to Azuremyst Isle. To enter the city, take the side entrance from the Vault of LIghts, head down, and then go to The Crystal Hall once in the center. For Silvermoon, take the flight path to Zul'Aman, and then ride west/north onto the main road into Eversong Woods. Once in Silvermoon, you'll need to get to the Court of the Sun. Go through the entrance, Walk of Elders, turn right into Murder Row, and continue through.

FackeljongleurJuggle 40 torches in 15 seconds in Dalaran.For this achievement, purchase at least 10 Jonglierfackel from a Midsummer vendor, and juggle them 40 times within 15 seconds while in Dalaran. Hotkey the torches and click the ground below your character to juggle them in place!

The following chart shows what percentage of Wowhead users with Profiles have completed each achievement:

Kommentar von George14

Kommentar von Rzzrblade

Darnassus has moved from Rut'theran Village to inside Darnassus. It is in the Warrior's Terrace

Kommentar von Superbian

I parsed the bonfire locations into a waypoint-adding macro for the addon TomTom. You'll need SuperDuperMacros as well to overcome the 255 character limit. Both addons can be found at wowinterface.com.

Kommentar von Sooba

There's a little mistake: The guide states that northrend bonfires don't count toward any achievements. They actually do! They have their own achievements AND they count towards the big meta achievements.

Kommentar von ThePandaRuler

Is it possible to get all of the Midsummer Armor Set in the amount of days that the Fire Festival goes on if you go around and get, like, all of the bonfires set up around Azeroth? I dont want to buy only some of the set and not be able to buy the rest.

Kommentar von Wazdakka

Thank you so much for this guide! Helped me get all the fires efficiently!

-Flame Warden Wazdakka

Kommentar von mckaysalisbury

FYI, visiting all of the fires, gave me about 700 blossoms. Any dailies you do (like killing ahune or whatever) will increase this amount.

Kommentar von sharphead

The Bulwark in Eastern Kingdoms appears to be a horde fire. The map marks it as Alliance.

Kommentar von amccandliss

The 2013 event will have 2 new achievements, Flamekeeper of Pandaria, and Extinguishing Pandaria. It looks like there will be 7 flames to honor, one per zone, and 1 to extinguish, in the vale of eternal blossoms.

Kommentar von Alayea

The map is incorrect for the coords given for The Bulwark. It's a map of Hillsbrad Foothills instead of Western Plaguelands.

Kommentar von perculia

The Bulwark is marked as Horde now, and has the correct lightbox. Some other map coordinates were fixed as well, such as Darnassus, Teldrassil, Grom'gol Base Camp, and Booty Bay.

Ahune loot and quest details have been updated for level 90, and battle pet and Pandaria achievements have been added. Maps and coordinates for Pandaria bonfires are up as well.(##RESPBREAK##)2##DELIM##perculia##DELIM##

Kommentar von Arjayemm

To clarify a point about the ribbon poles buff- it is for kills only. not for quest handins.

Kommentar von Znakoma

Ahh, thanks to the wonderful list of where the bonfires are I've managed to get all bonfire achievements. I've actually managed to get all the achievements for the whole of the Midsummer Festival on the first day. This guide helped a lot! Thanks :D

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Pandaria Bonfire Locations

Jade Forest - bonfire is not where the map indicates so be aware of this if you are visually referring to the map above to find them rather than using co-ordinates. I have included a co-ordinate macro at the end of this post

It is at 47:47 just outside of Dawn's Blossom slightly East of the main entrance steps.

When desecrating the opposing factions fire, the NPCs do not attack you. Just be aware of sneaky rogues and such lurking stealthed ready to maim you after you desecrate their bonfire and become flagged for PvP.

If you don't have a way to find co-ordinates, here's a macro which does it for you (won't dismount you in flight). Put it on one of your action bars and click to see your location in chat.

Co-ordinates Macro/script SetMapToCurrentZone() local px,py=GetPlayerMapPosition("player") DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("You are at map position ".. (px*100)..", "..(py*100))

Kommentar von Liike

If you're going to just fly around and click on all the bonfires, then you can expect to make around 1,570 gold. You can also do it on all of your characters, if you want to spend the time.

- 470g from Kalimdor

- 490g from E.K.

- 210g from O.L

- 260g from Northrend/Maelstrom

- 140g from Pandaria

This includes Horde and Alliance. About 10g for each Horde site, and about 20g for each Alliance site. (Or vice versa if you're Alliance)

It is also a great way to get the Burning Blossoms. I got about 820, but I did use some to light some Horde bonfires. So you can expect to get more flowers than that. You can also spend the flowers at any of the capital cities in exchange for some goodies.

Kommentar von Chipol

Ahh, in my first year of WoW, I am celebrating this festival. Great guide. Thank you! :)

Kommentar von Weapon0

"It's that time of year again. Acquire flaming threads, a frosty companion, epic cloaks, and more!" I have to admit that part about epic cloaks made me chuckle. :P

Kommentar von SykoSoul

Nothing new this year. We'll hopefully see something new next year with WoD.

Kommentar von redrummer

Did they change the location of the fire in Ironforge, I notice that currently it is so close to the guards that lower level players have no time to collect it before they get shot. Tried this many times on an approximately 70-75 horde toon (didn't realize it was the guard shooting me...thought it was the players camping in the area).

Kommentar von TheManCalledZee

The waypoints in the top-rated comments is a great tool, but requires a lot of copy-pasting back and forth.

Do yourself a favor and get Candy Buckets (Midsummer) addon. Install. Open map, it shows you all locations of bonfires for quests and extinguishing, and clears them from the map automatically as you complete them.

Yes, it is integrated with TomTom.

Kommentar von Metalhippie

Some of your listed locations are incorrect, like in Westfall, the fire is at Stendel's Pond near Moonbrook, and for Booty Bay, the fire is outside the town itself on the Wild Shore.

Kommentar von ravensuzuki

For missing tabards (Horde) go to Org and talk to Garyl - you'll be able to get your "missing" Tabard of Summer Skies or Tabard of Summer Flames. Don't know if this is a bug, but I have both because of this.

As for Alliance (I'm not sure, since I only play Horde), but you can check out Lyesa Steelbrow in Ironforge to see if you can pick up your missing tabard there.

Kommentar von cryptid420

Eastern Kingdoms map doesn't show Vashj'ir although it is listed under the achievements on WoW. So at currently I am just going around blindly trying to find it. Will update here if I do though

Another information for all the passionate pet hunters, with the 21st of June the Qirajiwächterling is able to spawn in Silithius next to the Gates of Ahnqiraj. Good hunting! (The respawn time seems to be something around 30 minutes to 1 hour 6 hours)

Kommentar von sakera

Ok so my main already has all the World event achievements completed and thus has the Meta done.

I did all the Pandaria ones last year. I went back and did all the fires this morning in every other area so as to get enough Blossoms to purchase extra pets to sell.

I was unable to do any in Pandaria as there was no quest at any of the locations. So here I sit 35 blossoms short of being able to purchase another pet due to it glitching out. Guess it is back to torch tossing to hopefully get the last ones I need.

Did anyone have this happen to them? Are the Pandaria ones just a once in a lifetime bonfire?

Kommentar von soarlo

IF YOU CANT FIND THE FIRES IN BLASTED LANDSyou have to speak to a woman standing alone at the entrance between duskwood and blasted lands.she'll "show you blasted lands before the iron horde invasion" and you'll be able to see the tents and the fire :)

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This is my first midsummer fire festival, and I'd really like to do as many of the quests as possible. However, I can't see the "Honor the Flame" quest at the bonfire in Elwynn Forest.

I'm Alliance, so I know the guide lists Elwynn Forest as one of the Alliance locations you can go to for this quest, but I'm not seeing it, even after I checked "low-level quests" on my mini-map. Clicking on the fire doesn't do anything, and the npc's only have dialogue and no quest to accept. And I've been googling and asking this question in different areas, but no answer so far.

I'll try flying to other Alliance locations, but I'm expecting to not see the quest there either. Any help would be really appreciated.

EDIT: So it turns out, I AM able to accept the quest at other bonfire locations, but still not at the one in Elwynn Forest. My toon is a human, so I'm guessing the bonfire that's located in your starting zone doesn't get the quest? If anyone else is experiencing something similar to me, please speak up, I'd like to hear about it.

EDIT 2: ...I'm an IDIOT. I think I did the quest at Elwynn Forest first, yesterday, and since the guide says you can only do it once at each location....DUH.

Once you have obtained one or more of the various sub-quests, the turn-in for each is the same, see any one of the Geschichtenerzähler which are found in Capital Cities.

Kommentar von MRTF

Please update the location links of the bonfires in the map. Was a lot of hazzle on some areas since they were out dated. Otherwise ok guide.

Kommentar von Wimbleton

Although instances and raids are probably quicker, I took my Unholy DK (3 heirlooms & lots of Excess Accelerated Learning Potions) from 94 to 97 just by doing (not all) of the bonfires and the easy Horde capitals (TB & UC). The thing is that you spend so much time on the gryphon that you can do other things and just fly around in the background. I didn't even try to keep track of the gold but it was reasonable and Burning Defender's Medallion is lots of fun. Low key way to level.

Kommentar von aznballer735

what is fastest way to get to hell peninsula, way to use old dark portal?

Kommentar von Cambrius13

Will there be any changes for 2016? If so, will there be a guide in the next few days? :)

Kommentar von LeDouche

As for the Blasted Lands bonfires, you may need to Zidormi (48.15, 7.3) and talk to her so you see Blasted Lands as it were before the invasion. I flew around for a couple minutes searching for the bonfire when I realized Midsummer event was created before the invasion. I hope this helpes somebody atleast.

Kommentar von westaiv

Some of the dots on the map are really off but the coordinates are spot on. It's best to go by the coordinates until the map is updated.

Kommentar von Cambrius13

As of this date, I can confirm that this year's Midsummer Fire Festival conforms to last year's guide.

I'll add here - because I had to look around a bit to find it - that to access the bonfires (Horde and Alliance both) in Blasted Lands, you need to speak to Zidormi and have her send you back through time to the "old" Blasted Lands, before the Iron Horde invasion.

Zidormi can be a bit tricky to find. Stand facing the gate leading to Swamp of Sorrows and she's on the hill to your left. After you've honoured your faction's fire and extinguished that of the enemy's, speak to Zidormi again to return to the present.

Kommentar von glinko

They put Ribbon Pole on Broken Isles only in Suramar. Why? It just don't make any sense, Suramar is 110 location, low levels don't have anything to do in Suramar.

Kommentar von Mipsen

"New to 2017, players can queue at any level for Ahune!" This is not right, you need to be atleast lvl 59 60 to que, just like the normal Slave Pens. Tested on my toons

Kommentar von ArtisanHealcat

Is it possible to obtain the full Midsummer set for the achievement Burning Hot Pole Dance in one try? I mean without having to wait for the next year Midsummer is active.

Kommentar von D34thsEyEs

So disappointing that the quests can only be done once in a lifetime. That means there is no hope in me getting this new pet :( If the quests I have done before are yearly like all other major world events, it would have made things easier...

Kommentar von DakkarBlack

I've updated the TomTom macro to Legion (7.2.5). I ended up with 1064 blossoms, but part of that is from Ahune and the torch juggling / target practice. I made in the neighbourhood of 1400g but it's hard to say as I spent some as I traveled. On a side note, the fires in Legion gave my follower/bodyguard experience (1000XP per fire).

Kommentar von Railguy

The description for the Alliance bonfire in Suramar is "Bridge by Aszuna". What bridge? There's no bridge anywhere near that bonfire. I know they give us coordinates but for those of us who are bored and like searching the general area for stuff this is extremely confusing.

Kommentar von Jujuzita

I'm sorry, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but after you bless your capital flame's once upon a time can you do it every year? 'Cause it seems I can't atm

Kommentar von listrait

Right, here are all the points for 2017, which I have just finished using with success. The only thing I've not personally verified are the Alliance capital cities. I take no credit for this, as it is sourced from the collective comments on this thread, with only about three minor corrections and a few qualifiers added for TomTom.

The only exception here is Deepholm, which TomTom cannot seem to recognise as a zone, even while telling you that you're there. That one's no problem, as it's in the temple that your faction capital portal will take you to. Also, as another comment states, you are most likely out of phase with the bonfires in the Blasted Lands, so I've also added a waypoint for Zidormi.

I used the addon Paste, which, while not current for 7.2.5, gave me no problems.

Kommentar von SlayBelleFTW

Hi. This guide states that for 2017 any level can queue for the Ahune dungeon. I did the quest chain for the Earthen Ring Elder and am able to click on queue for Ahune but the dungeon doesn't appear in the dungeon finder for my level 30. It does appear for my level 67. In a previous post, someone says it is 60+. Can anyone confirm?

Kommentar von SargonStarblade

I compiled a list of waypoints for all of the Midsummer Fire Festival locations. These lists are broken up by continent and designed to work with TomTom and Long Macro addons linked below. I tried putting as much information as I could and as precise coordinates as I could still being able to fit in the Long Macro which only allows 1023 characters, but is way better than the default 255 of the game. I found that some of the coordinates in other posts were way off, whereas I went right up to the flames and copied the coordinates.

NOTE: I was unable to create a macro for the one in Deepholm I cannot get TomTom to recognize it as a Zone.

Kommentar von SargonStarblade

For the Alliance: Orgrimmar's Flame is out in the open you can swoop down and grab the flame without aggroing the guards, Thunder Bluff's flame is out in the open you can swoop down and grab the flame without aggroing the guards, Undercity's Flame is out in the open you can swoop down and grab the flame without aggroing the guards, Silvermoon City is semi-fortified because no flying is allowed there, still I have seen Ally's run through aggro the guards, run far enough to lose aggro without aggroing other guards grab the flame mount up and get out without being killed.

For the Horde: Stormwind you can swoop down but you will aggro guards and unless you are max level you will die, Exodar is fortified, no flying allowed, but the guards are sparse you will only die a couple times, Darnassus is out in the open you can swoop down and grab the flame without aggroing the guards, Ironforge is a nightmare, I typically die four time just getting there and then another two or three because there are guards right there.

Blizzard should move Undercity's flame deep inside so it is at least a little fairer.